http://www.freedomworks.org/blog/jborowski/see-how-they-voted-here-key-vote-roll-call-2
See how your congress person voted.
http://www.freedomworks.org/blog/jborowski/see-how-they-voted-here-key-vote-roll-call-2
See how your congress person voted.
The NATO forces are brutal aggressors against the Government of Libya. The blatant attacks against the tanks and army of the central government of Libya are criminal aggression as defined by the international Geneva Convention. The Geneva Conventions were agreed to after WWII and clearly state that the armed forces of one nation which attack the armed forces of another nation without a Declaration of War are Criminal Aggressors. The Nuremberg Trials that convicted the Nazi and the Fascists after WWII clearly state that Criminal aggression is a War Crime. No NATO nation was attacked by Libyan government forces. No embassy of a NATO country was attacked. So the attacks on Libyan government tanks, personnel carriers, and ground forces are an unprovoked attack of a terrorist nature. Additionally the Law of War which is the legal manual used by USA forces concerning the legality of offensive actions, states that it is legally wrong to violate the legal borders of a sovereign State without provocation. The Arab nations and the world have good reason to decry and denounce the French, English and Belgium forces that are carrying out these attacks. Remember that all three countries have a dark history of colonial imperialism and especially France and Belgium have a history of rapine murder and slaughter of civilians in Africa. By their own statements and policy the NATO forces are siding with a rebellion against the Libyan central government. This makes the NATO forces provocateurs, partisans, and terrorists. Write your congress person to demand a stop to this war of criminal aggression in Libya. No one can claim that humanitarian aid is being delivered by bombs, Gatling guns, missiles and the like. These things are only deliver death and destruction.
http://www.news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110406/ap_en_ce/us_tv_fox_beck
Glenn Beck gave his listeners great insight into the workings of powerful people and leaders pf government. His contributions to the consideration of interrelationships between political leaders and those who work for them will be sorely missed by the many who rushed home to hear his 5 p.m. show or recorded it for playback later. The truth of the matter is the seventh paragraph of the article where Ailes says he is satisfied with both renditions of what really happened at Fox.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_us_libya
President Obama needs to grow up into the national and international leader that the USA needs. So far the President has played the blame Bush game. A game which is childish at the core and essentially a cry baby approach to government. Connected with this has been the victim game. The President is always crying that it ain’t his fault. It’s those nasty other guys. All too often the Obama scolds America about a wide range of things, essentially saying that America is not worthy of him. If he isn’t scolding us he is apologizing for us to the world. He started this apologizing even before he was elected and has continued it as he bowed to the feudal Saudi king and the Japanese Emperor. Now instead of wagging his finger at us, he is lecturing us about being adult as we face the trillions of dollars of debt he has foisted upon us. Of course, it could not be his fault, he inherited all of the problems! Well fine, if you want to accept his excuse, but all he is doing is making matters worse. Like war in Libya. It is very disturbing to see the USA join with imperialist England (look at their so-called British empire!) and colonialist France, their colonial period was even uglier, and also with Belgium, whose King Leopold was the butcher of the Congo, killing hundreds of thousands of Africans and enslaving the rest. Together with these NATO allies we attack and decimate a north Africa Arab Muslim nation of only 5.5 million. Our rockets, bombs, and Gattling gunned A-10 anti-personnel planes (capable of killing about 1000 people a minute) are viciously arrayed against the army of the government of Libya. I guess that since they soldiers are pro Gaddafi it’s okay to slaughter them. Oh, and by the way, for a nation to wage war against another nation without a declaration of war is considered by the Law of War to be criminal aggression. That applies as well to Iraq and Afghanistan. But you say, the UN okayed it with that cowardly phrase that the USA could use all means necessary (who defines necessary?) to protect civilians. Yes, but siding with the rebels against the government and assisting them in their war against the government makes us Partisans. Did you know that the Law of War allows Partisans to be summarily executed if captured? Gaddafi sent the President a letter which it seems is treated as a joke by Obama. However, we have dealt with Gaddafi as a legal head of State as late as two months ago. The letter was delivered through diplomatic channels and was accepted by the USA government at the hands of an embassy from Gaddafi. These actions translate into continued recognition of the Gaddafi Government as the legal representatives of Libya. The mature, adult, and internationally recognized response to accepting such a missive is for the head of State who read the letter to respond in exactly the same manner, namely a diplomatic letter responding to Gaddafi and delivered through diplomatic channels by an embassy to Libya. Hey, those are the rules for responsible adult citizenship in the world of international diplomacy, (I don’t make the rules) and it is infantile for the Obama Government to embarrass the nation by acting cavalier in this matter. If you give no respect then you get no respect. And it does us no good to dismiss an Arab leader, no matter how we dislike him. Such a dismissal can rightly be understood as an arrogant disrespect for Arab Muslim leaders in general. So grow up President Obama, get with internationally recognized norms and become the adult leader that the people of the USA need for times such as these.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/FOX-News-and-Mercury-Radio-bw-2461707152.html?x=0&.v=1
In an off-handed way it is amazing to watch the third highest rated cable news show end. I remember talking with some friends about Bill O’Reilly and how he had changed since his interview with Pres. Obama. Do you remember that soft ball interview where O’Reilly allowed Obama to dominate the hour? And do you remember that last question that O’Reilly asked Obama? Leaning over toward the President and speaking with very strong emotion and heartfelt sincerity, Mr. O’ Reilly asked Obama, ” What can I do to help you, Mr. President?” My friend said that the answer that Obama probably gave to O’Reilly is ” Get rid of Glenn Beck.” And so here we have it. O’Reilly, who often smirked and laughed at Beck, and took Beck along on a Comedy tour, thereby underlining that Beck was really a Comedian and not someone to be taken seriously, well, O’Reilly wins, Obama wins, Beck is out and the 2.2 million followers of the Glenn Beck show are the losers. Sad really. But not outside the brutal business of todays cable companies. No matter what O’Reilly and Fox say in the future, it is all about income and advertisers. No wonder Media Matters and George Soros are so happy. Amazing that MSNBC could keep Obermann so long but Fox gives the ax to Beck in such a short time. I wonder, does Bill O’Reilly really have that much power. It’s only an opinion, but from here, it looks like he does.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/08599206325700
Forget about all the women in Burkas. That is their culture and their religion as soon as our tanks are out of there, the men will impose their tyranny again. Eventually the seeds sown by USA will germinate and flourish and the women will take care of themselves. Sad that it will take a long time but that is the way in very rural areas worldwide. Forget about the Afghan people. We have one misguided person in Florida who burns a Koran and the Afghans kill eight people in reprisal. Noteworthy is that the Florida burning didn’t inflame hatred until our supposed ally Karzai raised it as a rally point for muslim bigots. Forget about the Taliban. They are a political party of muslim zealots who want Sharia law in Pakistan ( nuclear power) and Afghanistan. Hey, if the people are going to allow themselves to be beheaded by a bunch of overly zealot Moslem terrorists. What are we supposed to do about it. Really! We are thousands of miles and a thousand years away from them. You know, all the things that our USA government is doing there used to be handed by Christian missionaries who brought food, medicine, education and Western progress to benighted rural area’s of the world. The correction of Afghan cultural and religious issues is not a USA government or even a USA people problem. It is their problem. Stop the war. Stop the killing, bombing and aggression. Bring our troops home now and spend the 60 billion dollar war budget here. Hey, just give every American a percentage tax break for every billion dollars saved by not fighting a losing battle in Afghanistan. Obama is wrong to continue and to escalate the war there. We need to get out.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/af_libya
There must be a reason why last year it was okay for the leader of Libya to come to the USA, stay here un harmed and not arrested and to address the United Nations. But this year he is a Pariah and Obama and his people are doing everything to destroy him? Obama launched the aggression without consulting Congress but instead he sought permission from NATO and the New World Order government in Brussels to use USA military. Now he sends envoys to the rebels and their French supported rebel council but he does not send high level ambassadors to Gaddafi. Now last year he did deal with Gaddafi as the legal head of State and this year he doesn’t. It’s time for Barrack Obama to get real as a world leader and stop pandering to the likes of French colonialists and British imperialists. The rebels are their proxies. It is obvious that the rebels are not able to recruit the civilians into their rebellion. They also are not of a size to defeat the government forces. Be bold Obama. Send a high level envoy to Gaddafi and stop the carnage. And PLEASE no more talk of our negotiating with him but at the same time announcing that the result of the negotiations must be his ouster or demise. That is really silly. If you were Gaddafi would you agree to such terms?
The announcement that Mc Donalds Corporation will hire fifty thousand low paid workers for the fast food chain is good news. But it comes with a price. Mc Donalds Corp is exempt from Obama Care. Now some might say that this is very good government. But this writer suggests that this is further proof of the crony capitalism of the Obama administration. You and I are still required to buy into Obama Care. But the Labor Unions are exempt, Mc Donalds is exempt and the whole State of Maine is exempt! Is this equal treatment under the law? It is not, it is a street kid in the White House making deals to make himself look good in time for re election. But you and I and the small business owners of America are expected to abide by the law and pay the bill. Shame on Obama.
http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/1101333.htm
The USA Administration of Barrack Obama still engages in the brutal attacking of the Libyan government armed forces but give only words to Ivory Coast Mass murders. This writer does not suggest the USA intervene with boots on the ground in Ivory Coast and not in Libya. It is my position that the foreign policy of the USA is bigotry against Libya and tolerant toward other dictators who are much worse. Admittedly, Gaddafi said things like “I will have no mercy” but we do need to remember two things, one was that he faced an armed rebellion whose goal was to kill him and his supporters and the Libyan army. Secondly, like Saddam Hussein before him who claimed to be ready to launch the “Mother of all battles” the Arabs are known to exaggerate reality. The Daily Beast has an excellent expose’ of the nefarious reasons why the French President wanted to invade Libya. It should be must reading as to why we do not want to continue killing Gaddafi people anymore.
In the days before the UN resolution authorizing the no fly zone in Libya, the Russian Foreign minister stated that if the USA pursued the no fly zone concept as regards Libya, the Russians would veto it in the Security Council. Instead, the Russians merely abstained. However, soon after the NATO aggression against Libya began, Putin stated that the attacks against Libya were barbaric and reminiscent of the Crusades. However, the President of Russia disagreed and Putin shut up. It is noteworthy that Secretary Gates visited Russia before the UN resolution. It is frightening to think that the world may need to depend upon Russia and a veto in the UN Security Council for protection of the rights of sovereign States. After all, it was the Russians who after WW II were the criminal aggressors against Poland, Czech, etc. All during those terrible Cold War years the USA constantly invoked the concept of the Sovereign Nation State in order to counter the criminal occupation of the Eastern Block nations. However, now the USA under Obama’s New World Order ideas, is the aggressor and maybe occupier of another sovereign nation! Russia has murmured on the side lines since Putin was forced to shut up. However, the future of the free world may depend upon a former communist dictatorship and not in the USA. It seems like the Pres. and the Admin. are willing to bomb and destroy the armed forces of another country all the while declaring that the bombs and cruise missiles and other brutal military weapons are the agents of peace and harmony protecting the so called civilians from bad bad Gaddafi.